Ups and downs of Z

1 Sleepless night, all but ten minutes.  Breakfast at 3 am because I was bored as well as hungry, but it didn’t put me to sleep.

2 The first local asparagus this evening!  R saw it at a roadside stall and brought it home triumphantly.

3 It cost £3 for 10 spears!  I trimmed off the ends and then ate the raw trimmings before cooking the spears.  Wicked waste makes woeful want.

4 I potted up baby tomato and pepper plants.  Nurturing seedlings is what I love to do.

5 R went out at 4 o’clock and I got home at 4.10.  About an hour later, Ben asked for his dinner, so I fed him.  How was I to know that he assured R that he was terribly hungry at 3.30 and R fell for it?  Suckers, both of us.

8 comments on “Ups and downs of Z

  1. Mike Horner

    Your Ben is an old soldier. We had an English Setter like that. His best friend couldn’t have called him an intelligent dog – but he wasn’t daft, either!

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  2. kipper

    1. Hopefully you will sleep much better tonight.
    2. Lots of local asparagus here too.
    3. About $2,95 for a big bunch it will be about $4.95 and more towards the end of season.
    4. Ahhh Spring!!
    5. Ben is clever and definitely not daft.

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  3. kipper

    1. Hopefully you will sleep much better tonight.
    2. Lots of local asparagus here too.
    3. About $2,95 for a big bunch it will be about $4.95 and more towards the end of season.
    4. Ahhh Spring!!
    5. Ben is clever and definitely not daft.

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  4. Liz

    1) Have you tried bananas as a nocturnal snack? The allegedly have a soporific effect (in which case I should probably stop eating them at work).
    2) Yum!
    3) Premium price is OK as long as it brings quality produce with it.
    4) You are a domestic goddess.
    5) Most dogs always have room for a bit more food.

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  5. Mike Horner

    I perhaps should have added in Humphrey’s defence (he was our first English Setter), that, although English Setters are the best natured dogs on God’s Earth, they are easily the most bone-headed, too.

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  6. Roses

    Sounds like there’s a lot of that going round. Rummy always tries to make out I starve him when Dave comes round. Dave is getting wise to his wiley feline ways. Perhaps I shouldn’t have renamed him? Maybe it’s a Ben thing?

    Sorry to hear of your sleepless night. My week of sleep deprivation is Rummy’s fault. He wanted to play. All night.

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  7. Z Post author

    Mike, I used to have a red setter cross. He was both bone-headed and daft, but the most loving and loveable dog I’ve ever had and I still miss him desperately, ten years on. I love setters, they have the kindest hearts.

    Kippy, I slept very well, thank you, and felt great this morning. Asparagus will come down in price, but it’s always expensive – the ground is in use for a few weeks but taken up all year and cutting is done by hand. I don’t begrudge the cost. I do have some in the garden, but they’re very old crowns and don’t produce much. Ben is easy to forgive!

    Rog, you spear-eating monkey, you!

    Liz, no I haven’t. I’ll give it a try, thanks. And I’m neverendingly maternal, even to plants!

    Ben hasn’t done that before, the rascal. And he doesn’t sleep upstairs – though Rupert does, when he comes to stay. Sometimes I keep him awake, sometimes he keeps me awake…. But being kept awake when you could sleep is pretty awful – no idea of the answer with cats, I only understand dogs.

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